Commemorating
the Human Rights Day on December 10,
2017, the Southern Mongolian Human
Rights Information Center (SMHRIC)
announced the release of the
Genocide on the Mongolian Steppe:
First-hand Accounts of Genocide in
Southern Mongolia during the Chinese
Cultural Revolution (Volume I) (published
by Xlibris), a book translated
by SMHRIC Director Enghebatu
Togochog from Japanese to English.

Both
Enghebatu Togochog and Professor
Yang Haiying, author of the original
book entitled BOHYO NAKI SOGEN
in Japanese, believe that the
genocide of the Mongolian people
during China’s Cultural Revolution
was a crime against humanity that
has remained largely hidden from the
view of history.

“This book is dedicated to the
memory of tens of thousands of
innocent Mongolians who lost their
lives in a massive genocide carried
out in the Chinese-occupied Southern
Mongolia 50 years ago,” Togochog
noted in the “Translator’s
Acknowledgment” of the book.

In
1967, two decades after its
successful annexation of Southern
Mongolia, the Chinese Communist
regime launched a carefully-planned
campaign of genocide against the
entire Mongolian population in
Southern Mongolia. It was known as
the “Purge of Members of the
National Separatist Organization
Southern Mongolian People’s
Revolutionary Party”. According to
Chinese official statistics, 346,000
Mongolians were persecuted as
national separatists and
anti-revolutionaries, and 27,900
were killed. The Mongolians widely
believe the actual numbers of the
victims are much higher than the
Chinese official figures.

“In
an extravagant display of power,
wealth and military resolve, the
Chinese regime celebrated 70 years
of colonial occupation of Southern
Mongolia this year,” Togochog states
in the acknowledgement, “the
exuberance is starkly juxtaposed
with the reality of Southern
Mongolia, that an independent nation
can be reduced to an ‘ethnic group’,
a vast and beautiful territory can
be turned into a mining pit, and a
vibrant culture can be trivialized
to a window display within a matter
of a few decades.”

“Yet, what the Chinese did not count
on is that a nation of six million
strong with a fresh memory of
historical sovereignty and an
uncompromising national identity
cannot be easily wiped out,”
Togochog continues, “this means
resilience and resistance are a
permanent pair that makes the
‘Chinese dream’ not so pleasant.”

Highlighting the strengthening
resistance movements including the
rural herders’ uprisings, Mongolian
intellectual’s demand for their
legal rights, and the tireless
struggle of courageous dissidents
like Hada, Xinna, Huuchinhuu and
others who dedicated their lives to
the cause of freedom of Southern
Mongolia, Togochog writes in the
acknowledgment that “thus, this book
honors these brave Mongolian men and
women who have willingly sacrificed
their life and liberty to keep the
spirit of self-determination and the
aspiration for freedom alive during
these most difficult times.”